Assignment Knicks: Beat Boston!

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Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks driving to the handbasket  successful  a crippled  against the Boston Celtics, 2025 NBA Playoffs, Round 2 Game 2, astatine  the TD Garden successful  Boston, Massachusetts. Jalen Brunson of the New York Knicks driving to the handbasket successful a crippled against the Boston Celtics, 2025 NBA Playoffs, Round 2 Game 2, astatine the TD Garden successful Boston. NBAE via Getty Images

Can the Knicks bash it?

Can they bushed the favored Boston Celtics, instrumentality this circular of the playoffs and, maybe, conscionable possibly . . .

Start rootin’, New York.

After all, they’ve already proved the naysayers wrong, storming to a 2-0 bid pb implicit their Boston Celtics arch-rival — and connected the Celts’ location court, nary less!

Now, the squad is wrong 2 games of its archetypal travel to the Eastern Conference finals successful a quarter century.

They’re connected a roll: Twice this week, the refuse-to-lose Knicks stunned the Celtics with fourth-quarter magic to instrumentality their improbable pb implicit the defending NBA Champs.

Their “Mr. Clutch,” All-Star constituent defender Jalen Brunson, has been positively electrifying, with his magical fourth-quarter play. 

Teammates Karl-Anthony Brown, Mitchell Robinson, OG Anunoby, Josh Hart and Mikal Bridges are bringing the fire, too.

Not that it volition beryllium easy, of course: The Celtics’ 3-point sharp-shooters — who slumped successful Games 1 and 2, hitting conscionable 25 of 100 shots from heavy — could get blistery astatine immoderate moment.

But New York tin grip it.

At the extremity of Wednesday’s thriller, “Knicks successful four” chants filled the aerial successful Boston’s TD Garden arsenic the orange-and-blue faithful who made the travel spilled retired onto Legends Way. 

And the adjacent 2 games volition beryllium astatine Madison Square Garden — wherever fans volition beryllium loud, frenetic and raucous.

Hey, we’re New York. We’re ever L-O-U-D.

The Knicks are energizing the Big Apple — and getting voters’ minds disconnected of the dismal mayoral superior race.

If they get past Boston, they’ll look either different ’90s rival, the Indiana Pacers, oregon the top-seeded Cleveland Cavaliers.

But bushed them, too, and it’s connected to the NBA Finals.

Let’s go, Knicks. Beat Boston.

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